No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space

Across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this earth with envious eyes
No one could have dreamed that we were being [bad word] 
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed that we were being [bad word] As someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water

Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this earth with envious eyes

And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us

And yet, across the gulf of space, and slowly and surely they drew theirs plans against us

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space